"44. The several Ecclesiastical Authorities as aforesaid of the respective
Religious Bodies, shall send in to
the said Registrar-General, or other
officer as aforesaid, a correct list of
such Officiating Ministers, in the
month of December in every year."

The following are the Religious Bodies
enumerated in Schedule D, above referred
to :—

"The United Church of England and
Ireland
"The Church of Scotland
"The Roman Catholic Church
"The Free Church of Scotland
"All Presbyterian Congregations
"The Wesleyan Methodist Society
"All Congregational Independents
"Baptists
"The Primitive Methodist Society
"The Lutheran Church
"All Hebrew Congregations
"The Society of Friends."

I have therefore to request that, before
the termination of the month of December
next ensuing, the names of all Officiating
Ministers be sent in to me, duly certified
in order that such names may be entered
in a list, a copy of which will be published
in the New Zealand Gazette, in the
month of January, 1864.

John B. Bennett,
Registrar-General.

N.B.—It is requested that the christian
names and the addresses of the several
Ministers may be specified in the lists sent
in to the Registrar-General.

J. B. B.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, Nov. 28, 1863.)

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Appointing a Warden within the Otago
Gold Fields.

G. Grey,
Governor.

At the Government House at Auckland,
the twenty-sixth day of November, 1863.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in
Council.

WHEREAS by the "Gold Fields Act,
1862," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council from
time to time to constitute for any Gold
Field or for any part thereof, Wardens’
Courts for the administration of Justice
therein, and to appoint Wardens as judges
of such Courts, with power to act alone or
with Assessors or Juries, and in such manner
and to exercise all or any of the powers
mentioned in the Twentieth, Twenty-
first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third,
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-
sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth,
and Thirtieth Sections of the "Gold Fields
Act, 1862," as the Governor shall think
fit to direct:

And whereas by an Order in Council,
dated the fifteenth day of September, 1863,
there have been constituted for certain
districts of the Gold Fields of the Province
of Otago Wardens’ Courts for the adminis-
tration of Justice within the said districts
respectively:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the
Governor, with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of New Zealand,
doth hereby appoint the person under-
mentioned, being a Justice of the Peace
and Resident Magistrate, that is to say,

Vincent Pyke, Esq.,

to be a Warden and Judge of all Wardens’
Courts now or hereafter to be constituted,
with power to him to act alone or with
Assessors or Juries, and in such manner,
and to exercise all or any of the powers
mentioned in the Twentieth, Twenty-
first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third,
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-
sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth,
and Thirtieth Sections of the "Gold Fields
Act, 1862," as the Governor shall think
fit to direct.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of Executive Council.

Resignation by E. Murchrave, Esq., R.M.,
Tokomairiro, accepted.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 14th November, 1863.

HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to accept the resignation by
Edward Mursonava, Esq., J.P.,
of the office of Resident Magistrate at
Tokomairiro, in the Province of Otago.

Frederick Whitaker.

John Dewe, Esq., J.P., appointed R.M.
at Tokomairiro.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 14th November, 1863.

HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint

John Dewe, Esq., J.P.,

to be Resident Magistrate at Tokomairiro,
in the Province of Otago, vice E. Mus-
grave, Esq., resigned.

Frederick Whitaker.

L. Broad, Esq., appointed a Justice of
the Peace.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 16th November, 1863.

HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint

Lowther Broad, Esq.,
of Wakatipu, in the Province of Otago, to
be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony.

Frederick Whitaker.